Our Team

Travis Cusack is incredibly passionate about delivering genuine hospitality to guests.  His positive energy and inherent curiosity about people made choosing a career path that led to the restaurant and hospitality industry an easy one.

Travis has held a myriad of positions at various restaurants since 2002 and began working with Cameron Mitchell Restaurants (CMR) in 2018 at Ocean Prime’s Denver Tech Center location.  In 2021, he transferred to Prime Social in Kansas City as General Manager and helped successfully open a new Cameron Mitchell Restaurants concept before returning to the Ocean Prime brand in Denver and Columbus. In 2025, Travis moved to Fort Lauderdale to open CMR’s third Del Mar location.

Throughout his career, Travis’ passion for music has played an integral role in how he shapes and influences each guest experience.  As a recording artist, he has parlayed his talent and experience as a singer, composer and DJ to set the musical tone at the restaurants.

He genuinely enjoys connecting with guests and being the person that gets to drive their experience.  When a family or a group of friends sit down to dine together, they’re relaxed, comfortable and can just be themselves. Travis feels a certain privilege to be a part of that shared experience.

Travis enjoys producing music, snowboarding and birdwatching. His music background is deep as he served as a DJ for over 10 years and even won first place at Arapahoe Idol (similar to American Idol).

After leading kitchens at Ocean Prime outposts in Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Boston for years, assisting in the development and opening of Valentina’s in Dublin, Ohio in 2023 and Del Mar in Columbus, OH in 2024, and nearly two decades of extensive fine dining experience, Mitchell Brumels joins the Del Mar Fort Lauderdale team as Executive Chef. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), he has trained under world-renowned chefs and is active in the pursuit of furthering his mastery of the craft.

Prior to joining Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, Chef Brumels was executive chef for nine years at Vitale’s restaurants in Michigan, which was named “Italian Restaurant of the Year” four times by Dining Out magazine. Prior to Vitale’s, he spent two years as executive chef of the award-winning Italian restaurant Tre Cugini in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which received “Restaurant of the Year” awards from On The Town magazine both years that he was running the kitchen.

Brumels entered the restaurant industry as a dishwasher at age 16 and quickly moved up in the kitchen. Always eager to learn, he took a job at a fine dining Italian restaurant to work under a CIA graduate. Seeing Brumels’ merit, the chef later encouraged him to also apply to the CIA. Listening to the chef’s advice, Brumels went to the famed New York culinary school and graduated top 10 in his class in 1999.

A true Michigander at heart, Brumels enjoys ice carving, fly fishing, the outdoors, and food.